Note: No real clue when this happens as of yet, blame reading Starship Troopers
The others called him Twitch for a damn good reason.
He was a demolitions, repair, and sabotage expert originally part of Beta Squad before the disaster that claimed his podmates.
Hammer was working on the computers end of it while he'd been working on the more physical end.
When they'd stolen the Memory, it's cargo had come with it.
Namely a shipment of Corellian Power Suits that were being shipped to some CIS mercenaries.
With years of scrounging and making due, the two technical clone commandos had begun working on an idea for making the powered armor useful.
The fact that half the equipment they were messing with was illegal in most civilized systems, and the rest, well, that would be better left unsaid.
A large portion of the phrik alloy they'd gotten their hands on was being smelted under the guidance of a pair of astromechs they'd commandeered while they sandwiched the new armor with plasteel and a half dozen other types ontop of the stripped armor plating.
They'd decided to use what they had and make some monsters.
Five suits of the armor were being put together at the same time, more of a limitation on what they were willing to do rather than anything else. Get Theta some new toys to play with.
Jump servos mixed with modified versions of the jump trooper packs salvaged from the stores of the late Commander Cody's personal squad for added mobility, adding the re purposed pieces of remotes and datapads as well as a built in generator.
Unfortunately, they weren't allowed to play with the handful of portable proton torpedo launchers the fleet had, but they did manage to pull some concussion missile launchers out of the storage bays since they had more of them, and well, more fighters than pilots really.
"Done," he chimed while setting aside the arcwrench.
"Done with what?" he heard the tone of Captain Rex and jerked to something resembling attention.
"Making some new armor to play with."
"Why?"
"Well, Katarn armor just isn't that good at creating mayhem," he answered, "We're good at causing destruction, but stealth isn't something we're that good at, normally we slip in while the enemy is running away fro the explosions we've caused."
Rex started to groan as he stared at the monstrosities before him that looked almost like giant parodies of the clone trooper armor.
"We added shields and dug up some stealth field generators to integrate," Hammer explained, "Flame projectors, linked heavy repeaters, not to mention the concussion missiles and thermal detonators."
Rex blinked, after working with Jedi, he expected this sort of thing to come from them.
Well, them or the irregulars such as worked with General Kota.
Theta Squad was either so fucked up in the tank to think normally, or perhaps that planet they'd been stranded on had something in the water.